Earlier, party leader and former minister Suvendu Adhikari resigned from the party and joined BJP. Another blow to Mamata Banerjee as TMC MLA Shilbhadra Dutta resigned from key post of the party on Friday | Photo Credit: ANI
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Kolkata: In yet another significant setback to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, Barrackpore MLA Shilbhadra Dutta resigned from key post of the party on Friday. Shortly later, TMC leader Kabirul Islam resigned from the post of general secretary of the party s minority cell, the fourth major resignation in the party in two days. Earlier, senior party leader and former minister Suvendu Adhikari resigned from the party and joined BJP.
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NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee, who has already lost several of her key leaders to the BJP, was jolted by another round of resignations on Thursday.
Suvendu Adhikari, who had set the stage for his exit from the Trinamool by quitting as MLA, today broke ties with the party by resigning from the primary membership.
However, as expected, he did not leave alone.
Trinamool MLA Jitendra Tiwari, who was the Paschim Bardhaman district chief of the Trinamool Congress, also left the party.
Jitendra Tiwari was present at the closed-door meeting that Suvendu had held yesterday at TMC MP Sunil Mandal s residence hours after he quit as MLA.